If you think back to your personal health history, I am confident you can pinpoint a time in your life when the weight just started to “creep up” on you. Whether it was an emotional or stressful trigger that prompted the number on the scale to climb or the hectic pace of life that caused health to take a back burner position, one day you woke up and realized that you just did not feel like the vibrant, fit person you were meant to be. The good news is, the body has an amazingly forgiving and restorative nature. Given the proper foods, nutrients, and conditions, you can lose the weight and feel like your “best” self within a short time. What Is Metabolism? While studying and speaking to people about the function of metabolism, I found that a majority of people felt their metabolic rate was fixed. In other words, …